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Born 352
Died c.427
Subjects Of Study Mishna
Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Jewish scholar
Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
Aḥa Of Shabḥa
Jewish scholar
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller
Bohemian rabbi and scholar
Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar
Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Amram bar Sheshna
Jewish scholar
Louis Ginzberg
Lithuanian-American scholar
Obadiah of Bertinoro
Italian rabbi and author
Hai ben Sherira
Jewish scholar
Samuel of Nehardea
Babylonian-Jewish scholar
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Stefan Dušan
emperor of Serbia
Ramanuja
Ramanuja
Hindu theologian and philosopher
Chu Hsi, ink on paper, by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Zhu Xi
Chinese philosopher